Events - complete list
November 2024
2024-11-06 | 2024-11-07Rhapsody in Blue & Requiem
The Municipal House, Smetana Hall | Prague, Czech republic
Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar or The Phantom of the Opera, these are the musical masterpieces of the composer, Baron Andrew Lloyd Webber, a living legend. Of course, some of his work belongs to classical music. Like the Requiem, which he dedicated to the memory of his father. This evocative work breathes sadness, but also hope - that's when a boy's solo, in this case from the Pueri Gaudentes choir, sings the angelic Pie Jesu. The other two solo roles are also extremely demanding, which is why they are taken by masters of the field: our Lada Bočková and Pavel Černoch. George Gershwin also carried a beautiful sadness. Karel Košárek, who grew up on his music, knows about it.
November 2024
2024-11-28Prague Philharmonic & Pavel Černoch
Church of St. Simon and Jude | Prauge, Czech Republic
The Prague Philharmonic Choir together with the world-class tenor Pavel Černoch will present a purely Czech programme, with which they will embark a few days later on their "American" concert tour, the highlight of which will be an a capella concert at New York's Carnegie Hall. The repertoire will include works by Bohuslav Martinů, who was one of the few European composers to conquer the so-called New World, and whose works have been premiered by the most famous American orchestras under the direction of world-class conductors. By including works by Petr Eben, Bohuslav Martinů and Jan Novák, composers whose lives and works were marked by the Communist and Nazi regimes respectively, the concert also becomes part of the cultural events commemorating the November Day of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy and the Day of Studenthood.
December 2024
2024-12-06Prague Philharmonic Choir
Carnegie Hall | New York, USA
After performing the previous night with the Czech Philharmonic on our grandest stage, the Prague Philharmonic Choir graces the intimate Zankel Hall with this powerful, all-Czech program in honor of the 100th Year of Czech Music celebration. The ensemble is one of the world’s leading champions of Czech choral music—a singular tradition—and in this concert, they perform vocal works by many of the nation’s most beloved composers: Eben, Janáček, Dvořák, Martinů, and Jan Novák.
January 2025
2025-01-23 | 2025-01-24 | 2025-01-25Andris Nelsons Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 8 & 9
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Boston - Massachusetts, USA
For all his reputation as a prickly artistic genius whose music crackles with heaven-storming power, Beethoven shared with his teacher Haydn a delightful musical wit, nowhere so clearly demonstrated as in his Eighth Symphony. The cycle concludes with his hugely ambitious and all-embracing Ninth, a revolution in and of itself; it was the first symphony to include chorus, transforming Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” into a hymn for humanity.
January 2025
2025-01-29 | 2025-01-30 | 2025-01-31Czech Philharmonic • Simon Rattle
Rudolfinum | Prague, Czech Republic
Even world-famous conductors have dreams. Sir Simon Rattle for example has dreamt of conducting the Czech Philharmonic in Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass since it first bewitched him as a young man when he heard the Orchestra’s Supraphon recording with Karel Ančerl. This sacred work will be preceded by the second set of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances. These, together with the first set, will be recorded for future release on PENTATONE.
March 2025
2025-03-17 | 2024-10-21 | 2025-03-24 | 2025-03-27 | 2025-03-30Katya Kabanova | Boris Grigorjevič
Bavarian State Opera | München, Germany
May 2025
2025-05-25 | 2025-05-29Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | Sergey
Oper Leipzig | Leipzig, Germany
A masterpiece of the 20th century, a real "thriller"
"In the forest, in the deep forest, there is a lake, round and deep. The water of the lake is completely black. Black like my conscience. And when the wind whistles in the forest, the lake makes waves, great waves of fear."
Katerina Ismaliova, Acte IV